For Educators

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1. Let students know that today’s lesson will focus on advances made by women in Afghanistan, as well as the obstacles and dangers they face. Ask students to think of rights all men and women have in the […]

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1. Ask students who they think are generally the most directly involved in the fighting of wars. (Answers will vary, but will probably include soldiers.) Explain that wars have generally been fought by the military forces of opposing […]

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1. Ask students to think about different ways people have voiced objections to war and/or unfair laws and policies. (Protests, marches, hunger strikes, writings, etc.) 2. Explain that today’s lesson will highlight efforts of nonviolent resistance that […]

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1. Divide students into groups of 4-5 and distribute a full set of the “Worldmapper” mapcharts to each group and a copy of “The Shape of War” student organizer to each student. Tell students that they will have […]

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY 1. Begin class by asking students if they are familiar with the term “refugee.” If so, ask them to provide a definition, and write it on the board. (Their definition of the term may include that a refugee […]

Funders

Major funding for Women, War & Peace is provided by the 40x50, a group of visionary donors who have provided key support for this initiative; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Foundation to Promote Open Society; Ford Foundation; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Swanee Hunt Family Fund of the Denver Foundation; Starry Night, an Anne Delaney Charitable Fund; Lauren Embrey, Gayle Embrey and Embrey Family Foundation; The Atlantic Philanthropies; Dobkin Family Foundation; Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family; Gruber Family Foundation; Bill Haney; Pierre N. Hauser; Susan Disney Lord; Partridge Foundation, a John and Polly Guth Charitable Fund; Vital Projects Fund; Elizabeth H. Weatherman and The Warburg Pincus Foundation; The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Cynda Collins Arsenault; Barbara H. Zuckerberg; Sigrid Rausing Trust; more than 1,500 Members of THIRTEEN; and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for I Came to Testify is also provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, and for Peace Unveiled by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Funding for the online Education Guide is provided by The Overbrook Foundation.